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There is also the same kind of fruit: this cucumber. It is also so long, so thick, or so round, like a watermelon or a sugar melon. When it is ripe—completely ripe—then it automatically separates from the plant, from that vine. Without suffering; neither the plant has any wound, nor does the fruit. Suddenly, it just separates. And so in the mantra it is said: "Urvārukamiva Bandhanān." Like this, the ripe gourd (urvāruka) liberates from its attachment. We are connected to this plant of our family relations, what we call our dynasty: mother, father, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and so on. Our memory is not so strong. Maybe we know our parents’ names, and we may know our grandparents’ names, but very rare are those who know all the names of the fifth generation past. Our memory is not so good. Our attachment to this world, to everything, is a test. We are not afraid to die, but we are a test. Let’s say me, for example. Yesterday I was sitting and I said, I hope that after my death, still this beautiful spiritual center will be maintained. You see what our attachment is. It is attachment inside, because I wish that all people who come here get the blessing and good things. Practicing yoga—yoga is not practiced in Australia very much, but something completely different is designed. There are, I would not say, but I must tell you, something nonsense. It has nothing to do with yoga. And sometimes, in the magazines, they give such a posture which is impossible to do. Impossible. It must be like that. Many people say, "Oh, yoga, oh, I can’t do this. It’s not my job." You are not an artist in the circus, so yoga should be something very simple, classical, authentic, and balancing, harmonizing body, mind, and soul. But, you know, we want to do something. Humans want to be always adventurous, you know, and okay, the young people may do it, but people after 50, 60, or 70 or 80 years, they can’t. And therefore, Yoga and Daily Life is very successful and done a lot in the world because this is a system, and very scientific, and slowly, no harm, no harm. And always, I tell all my centers and my teachers of Yoga and Daily Life that now you have to go this way. And those who, in the name of Yoga and Daily Life centers, are teaching different things, they are not successful. So no force to your body, no force to your mind, no force to your concentration, nothing. You feel free, relaxed, and happy. But people, like, sometimes certain words. I was now in San Francisco before; it was already seven weeks ago, or not even. And they said, "Swāmījī, what do you think about Vinyāsa Yoga?" I said, Vīṇā Yoga is not a divine yoga. Even I never heard in my... in this camera it’s not too high, but my face is there. Like that or like this. It’s good. So when you come to their center, like in an aeroplane, you know, sometimes one comes with a tray, or you go to some party and one comes with a tray: orange juice, red wine, white wine, yellow wine, apple juice, and like this. So they come with a tray or in the front room, yes, please welcome, and you take one glass of galko, and then you come and relax. And then after practicing āsanas, they again sit and they get a little wine. And then they do prāṇāyāma. The whole brain is making, yeah, and then they sit in meditation. Yes. And then after the program, again, you get a little bit of drinking. And next, corner police let you, what you call the blue, blow, blow blue. So it became commercial, then it is a pity. So people said, "No, we are doing only for our body, and that we can feel that we have done something." We don’t want spirituality and this, okay? But without spirituality, there is no life. Without spirituality, there is no yoga. Without spirituality, there is no religion. Without spirituality, there is no ethics. And without spirituality, there is no completeness of human life. So we pray to the Lord to free us from this attachment, attachment to all these minds. So when death comes, you will scream, maybe. You will tell the dead, "I don’t want to go. I have to go first to my bank and sign my checks." Shaykhs, death will not give you one second. They will say, "No, I want to sign my testament." Death will say, "Don’t worry, somebody will take care. Come on." So, Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi-Vardhanam Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. My adoration, my vandanā. Mithyur Mukshir Mahāmṛta, my prayer to thee, O Lord, that at the time of my death, mṛtyu, bless me with mokṣa, the immortality, that my, this soul shall dissolve in the cosmic soul to become one. And so this mantra, this is very good for purification of the karma. There are many ceremonies. There is one kriyā, a beautiful kriyā for purification of karma. I introduced this only to the Kiwis, to the New Zealand people, and there were, coincidentally, three persons from other countries. So now the Kiwis, they are doing this Kriyā. How is that Kriyā name? I forgot it. Sudharā’s Kriyā. You know, he is practicing, but he forgot it because of all the complaints. He never comes to practice, and that’s why I purposely asked him the name. So even he doesn’t know the name of the Kriyā, so it is very clear that he does not practice. This is a policy and a diplomacy of the business people. In my black point, I will exclude you on this Thursday from the Kriyā, so Sudharas Kriyā. There is a beautiful Sudharas Kriyā last year. Devpurījī blessed me with this kriyā. And in Oakland and Wellington, I initiated them with this kriyā, and it’s a beautiful, wonderful, they feel like after this kriyā, like they have been bathing in the nectar, a portion of the nectar. It’s a beautiful kriyā, and you have that certain kind of essence, the oil, and some kind, you have to make the sudhāras, and the sudhāras you have to take just one teaspoon. That’s like a nectar, like a caraṇa amṛta. There are different kinds of amṛta. Amṛta means nectar. The pañcāmṛta, there are five different kinds of essence which include honey, milk, ghee, and yogurt. And there comes inside rose water, there comes inside sandalwood, oil, and many different things. So this includes there; it becomes amṛta. Then, but still not that kind of amṛta that you are thinking. Now, you have to have these certain mantras to mix in. So, how are you going to mix the mantras now inside? And that mantra is with that, which is a kind of abhiṣeka. And this abhiṣeka is to your different energy centers with certain mantras. And so this mantra comes and transfers into your sudhārasa. And sudharasa, the mantra is constantly filtering this energy of the sudharasa, which you are preparing. And then you have to drink it. Lucky are you. And when you drink it, it is such a strong feeling. So they all asked me, "Can Swāmījī be here to drink every day?" So I said, "Okay, you can prepare a small bottle and take one teaspoon every morning." So this group sits together and they make this Sudhāra Kriyā. This should be given only to those who are really, really seriously doing it. They promised me in front of me, they made a vow in front of the fire, God’s son, and all elements, that I promise that in any case, till the end of my life, every Thursday and every full moon day, I will perform this. This is Sūtrāya Rasa Kriyā. If you have not done it, what about your words? That Kriyā can turn right or the other direction. And I spoke one week with them. Every day, I explained it to them. And again, I gave them five days to think it over, explaining it to them. And again, one week, they said, "Swāmījī, we will do, we will do. Please give us this Kriyā." And now, black sheep. What will happen? First, I have to discuss with your wife. Okay, so that theory and practice, the tons of theory is nothing compared to the grain of practice. So only the intellect will never liberate you. Only your love will not liberate you. You have to put into action your love and your intellect. Between love and intellect, you have to have one balancing principle, that’s called viveka. Viveka is the highest level of the intelligence. So the intelligence is like this, stand for the camera, and is balancing both. On one side is love, on the other side is intellect: love and buddhi, prem and buddhi, love and intellect, the emotion. Then it comes to the right angle, to the right point. That time when you do these kriyās or these sādhanās, you wash your karmas, like after working in the field in the hot season, full of dust and sweating. Now, you come under the water and take this nice shower. You come out of your bathroom and you say, "Oh, I feel like a newborn child." I don’t know how a newborn child feels. I have forgotten. You know, but we imagine, but a newborn child is also not happy. Christ, oh God, where do you send me again in this world? There was a twin, one half brother and one sister in the mother’s womb, and they had a discussion, talking inside. And then sister said, "You know, we will be born." One sense thing, we will be born. Where? We are very happy here. There is nothing more. Then she said, "You know, and we will eat. Eat?" You don’t need to eat. We are eating from the navel, from the mother’s body, and we are happy. I don’t imagine or talk about things which never exist in the universe. Sister said, "Yes, brother." And you know, we will be washed with warm and cold water. Who will wash us? We don’t want. We are very comfortable and pure. Yes, and then they will wrap us in the cloth. Sister, I know you are the elderly one. I am the younger one. I believe you, but not with such jokes. No, father will take me in his arms, and mother will take me, and they will look at us. No, there is no mother, and there is no father. And take in the arms. We are happy as we are, sister here, and then they are gone. Sister looked to him. What do you say, brother? He said, "Yes, you are right." So you never know how things are developing. What I am telling you, sometimes you think, ah, this is a fantasy. It is not a fantasy. You will come there, and I will be there. Doesn’t matter, even if you die tomorrow, I will be there. Don’t worry. Yes? Thousand percent, I will be there, and I will say, "Which direction do you want to go now?" Because the guru-tattva is everywhere, not this physical body. So, when, and so, which side will you go? Karma, wrong, left side. I said, "Swamījī, protect me. I am going now to this painful situation." My dear, I told you many times, but I will pray. So a Guru Tattva works for us on the astral level as a justice, who gives the judgment and operates your karma and frees you to the liberation of mokṣa, the light of that Guru Tattva. Don’t neglect and don’t think it is a joke. It is the truth. And at that time, either you will be very happy or you will be very unhappy. Why? You will be happy because you followed and practiced everything, and you will be unhappy that you did not practice, and you will say, "It is a pity, I should have done." You know, there is one story I told many times, but I can repeat it once more. There were five college students. They were good friends, walking every day through the park and near the river, and like this, one day they suddenly saw a cave. He said, "Maybe we never saw a cave." He said, "Let’s go in and see how it is." One said, "Oh, to go in the cave?" He said. Yes, yes, let’s go, why not? So all of them, all five, they enter the cave and begin to walk. It was afternoon, five o’clock. It was summer, not winter. In winter, the sun goes down quickly. They walked and walked, and it became darker and darker. So one of them said, "Hey, boys, stop. Do you know where we are going?" He said, "Yes, in the cave. Yes, in the cave, but do you know how to come back again? Maybe the caves have a few other caves, and we go into one cave, and then we go to another, and then we lose the way." Let’s go back. They said, "Yes, really, we are all scared of what we are doing now." So, there is how to go back now. Well, let’s turn back, and let’s hope we will go as soon as we see some better light. So there was one man, one boy, a student, very curious one, like a businessman. So it was like a lagin bhai. That boy said, "Well, I want to know what kind of stones, color, and the sand, what is earth here in this cave." So he wanted to take some with him. And in the dark cave came the voice, "Children, be careful. I warn you, don’t take anything from here, otherwise you will be sorry." Others told them, "You are crazy, everywhere you create trouble. Don’t take anything, your science subject is okay, very good, but not for this kid." Go, we go back. So they turned back. A voice came. But I also let you know, if you will not take something, you will be sorry. Now you take something, you are sorry, and you don’t take, we will be sorry. So they said, "It doesn’t matter if we will be sorry or not, we don’t want to take anything." At least we will not be guilty. So they put their hands like this and walk. But that one boy, he was curious, went down and took some stones. Again, came sound. I told you, don’t do this. You will be sorry. What did you take? They said again. How are you? Come on. So he took something and put his hand in his pocket. Thanks to God, some light was there. So they walked towards the light, and they came out of the cave, never more. We will not go in. They turned back, and the cave disappeared. Now, this boy, what he has in his hands, he puts out, and see what it is: diamonds. Now, this boy said, "Oh God, I am sorry I took so little." Others were so sorry, "Oh God, we could also have taken." Have taken. So this ashram is that cave. Hundreds of people are going every day. No one sees that yoga center. But they came in like you, and you are sitting and I am talking and telling you. Inside you, your inner voice is there. I will try a little. I will, okay. So, try a little, and then one day you will be sure that you would have practiced completely all the system that is. So, purification of our karma, in practice, is our actions. Help, help. When you go through your garden, there are some plants. Five days or two, ten days, there was no rain. They look not so good. Take a little water and give them. After five minutes, you come back to your garden, and you know your plants will smile for you. And the smile of the plant is thanks to you. The thanks is the blessing, and that blessing is in such a subtle form. You don’t see with your hands and touch with your eyes in this. But the blessing is between the vegetation and you, or you give some water, sugar water, where there are some wasps and they have nothing to eat. Don’t say they are beasts and spray, kill them. Love them. Give them something. Feed them, love them, don’t eat them. So this is very important. So little, little things. When you walk on the way, you see a small stone lying on the road, a small stone like a cherry. You should remove this stone and put it to one side. Because many people who walk may twist their ankle joint because the stone is on the edge of the road. Or, if a car is driving and the pressure of the car tire is on the edge, the stone goes like a bullet, it can hit anyone. So this was only stone. To remove it, you did a great karma. A piece of glass or something to remove, a thorn from the way. You are not removing the thorn only physically on the platform, on the pedestal, or on the path somewhere. You remove the karmic thorns from your destiny. With this, believe me, you have removed a big rock, a karmic rock, from your karma. And mantra, so give some seed, feeding the birds, something there, something there, something there. The one farmer came with a trolley, a tractor trolley, with a lot of fruits and leaves and carrots and apples and cherries and this. And he was standing there in the market, and school children were passing. So he gave someone an apple and someone a cherry. He said, "No, no, I want bananas." He was just giving to children, selling also. But he realized that children have no money, and they were looking for fruits, and he just gave it. So, it gives the joy. Receive, you receive karma, responsibility. So, our responsibility means now we have a duty. What means duty? That duty is a karma. And when you give, you give something away and you make someone happy. But who is more happy? Who is giving? Always, joy is in giving. When you give a Christmas present or a birthday present, or on Dīvālī or Holī or Rakṣā Bandhan, how happy you are. This coming full moon is the day of brothers and sisters, where the sister will tie this one thread on your wrist, and she will bless you. And this tie is a tie of love between brother and sister. That brother promises his sister, "I will protect you in every aspect." And sister promises that, "My dear brother, I will ever love you as my dear brother, and I will bless you and also protect you." To maintain the ethical and moral principles in the world, you have to create the relation of brothers and sisters. So, once a year we have a day called the day of brothers and sisters. This is called Rakṣā Bandhan. Rakṣā means protection, Bandhan means the tie. So you tie to protection. So this will be on the 2nd of August this year, on this full moon day. So you can choose anyone. If you don’t have a sister, you can choose a sister. Here, there are many sisters. Ask them, "Can I accept you as my sister?" Or a sister will come and ask, "Can I tie this and ask you to be my brother?" It is beautiful, beautiful. On this day, in many big cities and in districts, our government gives free traveling tickets to the sisters to go to their brothers and come back. It is nice. It is only for the same day. The next day, it doesn’t matter. So when we sit in meditation, we are in the form in which we believe that he is in me and I am in him. I am sitting near him, and I tell or ask him to accept all my deeds, the whole day what I have done. Please accept this and bless me, or give me what is good for me. The rest, oh Lord, you take it and utilize as you like. When you go to sleep, then tell, "Oh Lord, my body, my senses, my intellect, and my mind, the responsibility of this I give to you." Thee, protect me in my sleep when you get up. Say, "Lord, consciously or unconsciously, even through dream, if I have done something wrong, forgive me, and please take the care and guide my body, my senses, my words, my intellect throughout the whole year." You should be like a driver, steering power. Lead my steps according to thy will, that I do only good things and positive things, that I go there where people are unhappy and I can bring happiness. Like the holy friends from Assisi said, "Lord, let me be the instrument of thy love." May I bring happiness where there is unhappiness. Where I bring joy where there is pain and misery, let me be the bridge, heart to heart, that they can walk over this bridge to unite them. So these are the prayers and meditation techniques of the great saints. Not that you are meditating and saying, "God, there is one house that is selling, I want to buy it, but can you, God, do something so the price will be less?" Yes. Or praying, "Lord, please help me." Tomorrow I have an examination. He listens, and he will help us. I get nearly every day emails and telephone calls that someone has an operation today. Unfortunately, many operations are about cancers. Or hip joints, or many things. Please, Swāmījī, can you pray for this? Someone died, can you pray for this? Someone is married, and can you pray, please, that I get pregnant? I almost also pray that. And then he is pregnant and says, "Please, Swāmījī, can you pray for nine months that everything goes well?" So I have to pray for nine months. So I tell Maa Prabhujī, my prayer to the Lord: give good health to the mother and child, and may the child be born healthy. Please bless them. So my duty is finished. So there are, because asa vahavasa, asa vahavasa, where there is hope, there is living; you are living there on that hope. And hope is a walking stick from the cradle to the grave. Don’t give up your hope. So prayer, prayer, prayer. And the students, when they go to school and have an examination, they come and they take the pen and they say, "Dīpa Nayan Bhagavān Kī Jai. Mā Prabhujī, you will do." I am an instrument. Dīpa Nirañjana, Śabda Brahmān. Yes, it helps. Does it help? You know the very well-known, famous Swāmī Vivekānanda, who brought Indian science and yoga into the western countries. So in Chicago, the first time when he came, he was invited to a conference about the World Religious Parliament. And Vivekananda was giving a lecture, and one lady was sitting opposite, an artist, and she was making a picture of Vivekananda’s portrait. And after his lecture, she gave him the portrait and asked, "Sir, who is this behind you?" because she saw two pictures. One is himself, and behind some other picture, and that was a picture of his guru. And on the wall, there was no picture. But this artist could see the aura. Exactly that aura was Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, Vivekānanda’s guru. So Vivekananda said, "That’s my Gurudev." So whether you believe or not, Gurudev is there, observing his subtle body, his energy body. That is always there. And if you are angry at devils and this, then always the anger and devil are there. So, how do you feel here? Radiance out. Always keep the light inside. Let me be the light so that I can enlighten the hearts of all. O Lord, let me be the light so that I can remove the darkness of ignorance. Let me be that joy, that I can remove the pain and misery of others’ sufferings. This is the best way to purify your morning get-up. Say, I am human. What makes me human? What does it mean for me to be human? I am human. What makes me human? And what does it mean for me to be human? These three mantras will protect you from many negative activities. You go to the bathroom, you touch the water and say, "Thank you, Lord, that I have access to clean water." You know how nice our water element is? Consciously use that water. We call Jal Devatā, the water God. Then you come to your kitchen and warm your milk, your coffee, or your chai, whatever. But the fire, don’t tell your coffee. Thank you, coffee. No, no, water and fire. This fire, God, Agni Dev, Agni Dev, I bow down to thee. Bless me and be always with me. If the fire is not in your body, you will die. Our body temperature is automatically maintained. There is an automatic central heating system. And there is a watch or a clock inside, fixed by God. It doesn’t let go too high and too low. And when too high, an alarm is there. You have a fever. And when too low, you are freezing also. So the five elements are balanced perfectly. So Agni Dev is within us. Jal Dev, the water, is within us. Mother Earth is with us, within us. Vāyu Dev, the air is within us. And Brahman, the sky is within us. Yatha brahmāṇḍe tatha piṇḍe. What is in the universe is also within me. And I pray to all, and all in me I pray to myself. I ask blessing to me to bless myself, because I see all as myself. That will protect us from negative karma, and we will worship. Then you come to the food. What is that? Breakfast, whatever it is. We pray, "Thank you, Lord, that you gave me this as prasāda, blessed food." And so on, everything we do. When you come to your car or you go out of your house, say the mantra. Oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭivardhanam urvārukamiva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt. Protection. Protection from accidents. It doesn’t cost you money. It doesn’t take much of your time. And this is a very simple way. Other ways there are yajña, fire ceremony, yajña, havan, mantra, anuṣṭhāna, certain fasting, certain kind of color of the cloths, depends on which constellation you are, certain kind of metals you should have on the body, or some stones, and these are many, many different things. But I showed you one very simple way, and therefore there is one mantra which Gurujī may experiment with, and that mantra is called Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana Sabhā Dukkha Bhan. Prabhu Dīpa Nirañjana Sabhā Isi Mantrasī Hove Mana Mañjana. Isi Mantrasī Hove Mana Mañjana. Śrī Dīpa Sabhā Dukkha Bhanjan. Prabhudeepa Niranjanas Gurujī said, through this mantra, your mind will be purified, all the negative qualities. What will happen at that time? Hṛdeya Kamal kī āṅkh khul jāve. Hṛdeya Kamal kī āṅkh khul, the eye of your heart will open. That eye of the heart is to see God, but that heart, the eye of your heart... Only will open. If you every day put an ointment, like ointment you put in the eye, so the ointment in the eye of the heart is the name, this mantra. Like every day you make up, you make up in your eye, you know. So it doesn’t take a lot of time. Now you are very expert. Very quickly you do like this, and if I would have to do today like this, I think I will be one side too black and the other side too yellow. I don’t know how I will look like this. I have no practice at all. So, but now you know it doesn’t take time. Similarly, mantra, you can do anytime: "Dīpa nirañjana, sab dukha bhanjana, dīpa nirañjana, sab dukha bhanjana, dīpa nirañjana, dīpa bhanjana, dīpa nirañjana." Yeah, it doesn’t take time. Haat mein kaam, mukh mein rām. In your hands, you have work, and in your mouth, you have God’s name. So, this bhajan, this evening, I will translate for you very nicely, word by word. And this is the easiest way, the easiest of the easy ways for us to purify our karma. Dīpa nirañjana śabdukha bhañjana. Dīpa means the light. Nirañjana means the pure, spotless. Dīpa Nirañjana Sab Dukha Banjan. Sab means all, and Dukha means the troubles. Banjan means remove. O Lord, remove all my obstacles. Remove all my pains and remove all my troubles. Transcend thy cosmic light, pure Nirañjana, in my heart. So śrī-dīpa-nirañjana-sabadukhabhan. Prabhu-dīpa-nirañjana-sabadukhabhan. Isi mantrase hove mana manjana, isi mantrasa hove mana manjana. Śrī-dīpane jan sabha-dukha-bhan, prabhu-dīpane ran jan sabha-dukha-bhan. Nēmasē dhāveto dharaśana pāve, nēmasē dhāveto dharaśana. Dēvī dēvatā kare saba vandana, dēvī. Devatā saba vandana, śrīdhīpa nirājana, sāpatukā Prabhu Deepa Niranjana, sabadhu nema siddhaveto darśana pave. Nema means discipline. If disciplined, you will practice. Darśan pave. Then you will see the Ātmā. Darśan means to see. When you will have ātmā jñāna, then you will see even Devī Devatā, all God is, they greet you. They welcome you. They greet you like this. After when? After that. Life is gone. Now, not. Now, may you have Ātmā Jñāna? Yes, you can have, no problem. But how will you go out of the door, and what will you do now? Different things. So again, the karma comes, pollution comes. It will not attack you personally, but it can happen. You cannot trust your body and your senses. Therefore, all the credit is given to thee at the end of your life. So keep on practicing all life, and keep your discipline and your spirituality. Even some troubles came, or misunderstanding came, or something between, remove that and again begin. Tell, O my Lord, forgive me please, my laziness, my ignorance, my mistake. I am Thine, accept me. God is like a father and mother. So Gurudev will always forgive and accept us again. That’s very important. So for today, that’s enough. I give you three practices. One was Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt. You have in your yoga books, "Yoga and Life" or "Hidden Powers in Humans." It’s very, very good. Second, I gave you a practical technique to remove thorns, stones, or something from the road and feed the hungry birds or give a little water to the plant which is dying, as well as greeting and respecting the five elements: water, earth, air, fire, and this. Be aware of that. Now, the big problem is that there is no access to clean water. Many, many people, millions of people, have no access to clean water. So, water and food—there is a lot of food in the world, but it is destroyed, not used properly. And food, which is polluted also, with a lot of pesticides. But anyhow, to give to the needy one, that’s a blessing. And in the meditation, you surrender to God, thy karma. And at the end, this mantra, Oṁ Prabhudeep Niranjan Śabduk Bhanjan. This is the best mantra. You can have it today, okay? You write down, because you want to have a mantra, so this is your mantra now, okay? I accepted you as a disciple, and you have a mantra, okay? Anyone who wants to have this mantra, you can use this mantra, and I bless you in the name of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. And you will see how happy you will be, how many things will turn positive in your life. But practice, not only I taught and you heard, and you think now all problems are gone, it is not so quickly. It is like if I put the seed in the ground, now this seed is your duty to take care of. And day by day it will grow, and one day the fruits will come. You see, the mother has a baby in the stomach, and she cannot wish or accept that it is already born tomorrow. No, it takes nine months, and your duty is to take care. Slowly, slowly, it is a beautiful process. I pray to the Almighty for your good health, peace, harmony, love, and happiness in your life. Hari Om.